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David @ Tokyo

Perspective from Japan on whaling and whale meat, a spot of gourmet news, and monthly updates of whale meat stockpile statistics

12/15/2006

 

Junko Sakuma's report on whale meat stockpiles

For anyone who wants to read Junko Sakuma's "analysis" of the whale meat stockpiles (covered in the western media at the start of the year), you can find an English copy of her report here.

In the foreword of the report Sakuma writes:
... the [Japanese] public has been quietly expressing their opinion by choosing the option of "not buying." It took a while before their quiet voice to be manifested in the statistics, but now, the figures are clear.
What is clear from the figures is that not only has supply risen, consumption has clearly risen as well. Of course that wasn't the impression Sakuma wanted to give, as evidenced by her failing to refer to the ministry's outgoing stock volumes a single time (these volumes are listed alongside the stockpile figures in the documents released by the ministry). Increasing outgoing stock volumes just don't agree with her desired conclusions.

Nonetheless, Sakuma does present some nice graphs of other things which may be of interest to the avid reader, and the other redeeming feature of the paper is that it's a fantastic example of anti-whaling distortion that deserves to be exposed.

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>as evidenced by her failing to refer to the ministry's outgoing stock volumes a single time (these volumes are listed alongside the stockpile figures in the documents released by the ministry)<

Basically we know she made the stock pile graph to disturb whaling.
The motivation is quite childish.
To the pro-whaling bloc ,it is nothing but a paper of a trash box.

As I looked into her personal
profile,I am surprised to find she is awfully lacking of the sense of market.

For example,she has a serious mistake;we need not handle anything if it seems unnecessary.

If her comments are right,we do not have to buy the items as follows:"JapaneseKimonos"
"Utanpo"(hot-water bottle) ,"jyukokumai"(rice mingled with some grains), Hoshigaki(dried perssimon)."Matutake"(Japanese mushroom)

But actually these items are
sold very well in spite of high
price.

All the Japanese need not them,
but many of them need these items virtually.

To say "whale is unnecesarry" is
very unfair.she has to open her eyes widely and study again.

Y/H(Japan)
 
"For example,she has a serious mistake;we need not handle anything if it seems unnecessary."


That's not a mistake; it's an intentional propaganda exercise.

The animal protest industry use it over and over for any use of animals that they target, be it fur, trapping, sealing, animal testing, meat eating etc.

It's a meaningless throw away line really and it only works on a very superficial level but as the western media treat sustainable use issues as more info-tainement than anything else, it gets a lot of traction in short press release or quote based reports in the press.

Someone should ambush her with a video camera and ask to be taken back to her home and shown how one lives with nothing 'unnecessary".

I'll bet my pinky she's a vile hypocrite.

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